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CEGA was excited to host the 13th annual Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev), one of the major annual conferences dedicated to development economics. The event brought together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss work that enhances our understanding of economic development, advances theoretical and empirical methods, and improves development interventions and policy.
Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic Containment Efforts in Liberia
Elisa M. Maffioli, Robert Gonzalez
The Impact of Mobile Phones: Experimental Evidence from the Random Assignment of New Cell Towers
Arman Rezaee, Joshua Blumenstock, Niall Keleher, and Erin Troland
Creating (Digital) Labor Markets in Rural Tanzania
Dahyeon Jeong
Discrimination from Below: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Ketki Sheth, Shanthi Manian, Shibiru Ayalew
Does Gender Matter for Small Business Performance? Experimental Evidence from India
Solene Delecourt, Odyssia Ng
Women’s Labor Market Opportunities and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Dhanushka Peru
Political Punishment and Financial Safety Nets: Evidence from India’s Demonetization
Priya Mukherjee, Gaurav Khanna
Knowing what’s good for you: Can a repayment flexibility option in microfinance contracts improve repayment rates and business outcomes?
Giorgia Barboni
Does Formal Credit Lead to more Financial Inclusion or Distress? Results Using an Algorithm-based Loan among Underserved Clients in Paraguay
Jeanne Lafortune, Jose Tessada, Viviane Azevedo, Liliana Olarte
Banking the group: Impact of credit and linkages among Ugandan savings groups
Luciana Etcheverry, Alfredo Burlando, Jessica Goldberg
Does Parental Out-migration Benefit Left-behind Children’s Schooling Outcomes? — Evidence from Rural China
Xiaoman Luo
Not Playing Favorites: An Experiment on Parental Fairness Preferences
Maulik Jagnani, Jim Berry and Rebecca Dizon-Ross
An aspiring friend is a friend indeed: school peers and college aspirations in Brazil
Jessica Gagete-Miranda
Multidimensional Impacts of Preschool Attendance: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Fernando Saltiel, Jorge Rodriguez
Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students
Claire Duquennois
Moving the Goalpost Closer: Do Flexible Targets Improve the Impact of Incentives?
Haijing Huang, Sebastian Linnemayr
Appointments versus Commitments: Overcoming Self-Control Problems in Preventive Health
Laura Derksen, Jason Kerwin, Natalia Ordaz Reynoso, Olivier Sterck
Can text messages improve children’s health? A case from rural Ecuador
Megan Rounseville, Ana Maria Oviedo and Priscila Vera Jibaja
The Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming in Kenya
Michael Walker, Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel
Residential Segregation in Urban India
Brandon Tan, Anjali Adukia, Paul Novosad, Sam Asher
Shifting the Laffer Rate in Developing Countries: Evidence from Randomized Tax Rates in the DRC
Augustin Bergeron, Gabriel Tourek, Jonathan Weigel
Taxation Toward Representation: Public Goods, Tax Collection, Social Norms, and Democratic Accountability
Benjamin Krause
Dishonest Politicians and Public Goods Provision
Moogdho Mahzab
The local advantage: Corruption, organized crime, and indigenization in the Nigerian oil sector
Jonah Rexer
Political Alignment and Credit: Evidence from Local Governments in Mexico
Bruno Lopez-Videla, Adrian de la Garza
The Economic Value of Crime Control: Evidence from a Large Investment on Police Infrastructure in Colombia
Miguel Morales-Mosquera
Judges, Lenders, and the Bottom Line: Court-ing Firm Growth in India
Manaswini Rao
Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India
Natalie Bau, Adrien Matray
The gains from market integration: The welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia
Hundanol Kebede
Cash is King: The Role of Financial Infrastructure in Digital Adoption
Subrata Ritadhi, Bhavya Aggarwal and Nirupama Kulkarni
Gender Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Field Experiment in Indian Call Centers
Deepshikha Batheja
Women’s Job Opportunities and Marriage Quality
Jagori Chatterjee, Rachel Heath
Macroeconomic Conditions and Child Schooling in Turkey
Pinar Gunes, Beyza Ural Marchand
Marriage Outcomes of Displaced Women
Frances Lu, Prashant Bharadwaj, Sameem Siddiqui
Productivity dispersion and persistence among the world’s most numerous firms
Casey Maue, Marshall Burke, Kyle Emerick
Civil Conflict and Later Life Crime
Raisa Sara
Can Mobile Phone Metadata Identify the Ultra-Poor?
Emily Aiken, Joshua Blumenstock
Measuring the Value of Statistical Life and Moral Trade-offs among Low Income Populations in Kenya and Ghana
Sindy Li, Alice Redfern, Daniel Stein
(Machine) Learning What Governments Value
Samsun Knight, Daniel Bjorkegren, Joshua Blumenstock
Long Term Nutrition Impacts of the Green Revolution in India
Leah Bevis, Digvijay Singh Negi
Agriculture and Deforestation
Teevrat Garg, Ryan Abman, Yao Pan, Saurabh Singhal
Household Electrification and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
Manuel Barron, Maximo Torero
Enforcement in Electricity Services: Evidence from a Randomized Smart Meter Experiment
Robyn Meeks, Arstan Omuraliev, Ruslan Isaev, and Zhenxuan Wang
Cultural Norms and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Ana Tur-Prats, Eleonora Guarnieri
The price of silence: Marriage transfers and women’s attitude toward intimate partner violence
Suzanna Khalifa
The Silenced Women: Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence Against Women?
Abhilasha Sahay
Matrilineal Kinship and Spousal Cooperation: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt
Sara Lowes
Got (clean) milk? Transparency, governance, and incentives for cleanliness in Indian dairy cooperatives
Ashish Shenoy, Manaswini Rao
Political Decentralisation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas
Apoorva Lal, Saad Gulzar, Ben Pasquale
Religion and the Scope of Morality: Evidence from Exposure to Missions in the DRC
Augustin Bergeron
Using Household Grants to Benchmark the Cost Effectiveness of a USAID Workforce Readiness Program
Craig McIntosh, Andrew Zeitlin
The Apprenticeship-to-Work Transition: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Jamie McCasland, Isaac Mbiti, Morgan Hardy, Isabelle Salcher
Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia
Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Christian Posso and Jorge Tamayo
The Effects of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement on Health and Mortality in Mexico
Sofia Fernandez Guerrico
The Impact of Access to Clean Water on Cognitive and Physical Development: Evidence from Mexico’s Programa de Agua Limpia
Ryan Brown, Sonia Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani
Characterizing the contribution of high temperatures to sustained child undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jesse Anttila-Hughes, Rachel Baker
Climate Change and the Opportunity Cost of Conflict
Michele Muller-Itten, Kevin Roche, Diogo Bolster, David Dralle, Marc Muller
Reporting Peers’ Wrongdoing: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Financial Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior
Stefano Fiorin
Overcoming Adverse Selection through Performance Pay
Christina Brown, Tahir Andrabi
Organizational Mission, Financial Rewards and Performance of Public Sector Personnel
Muhammad Yasir Khan
Private Hospital Responses to Reimbursement Rates Under Government Health Insurance in India
Radhika Jain, Pascaline Dupas
Adaptive Risk-Taking: Theory and Evidence from Developing Countries
Remy Levin, Daniela Vidart
Inferring Informal Risk-Sharing Regimes: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Ethan Ligon, Zhimin Li
Risk Preferences and Risk Pooling in Networks: Theory and Evidence from Community Detection in Ghana
Daniel Putman
Insurance and Propagation in Village Networks
Diego Vera-Cossio, Cynthia Kinnan, Krislert Samphantarak, Robert Townsend
Watching the State: Can Technologies Promote (a Sense of) Democracy?
Anastasiia Faikina
Why Pay the Chief? Land Rents and Political Selection in Indonesia
Gedeon Lim
Too Close to Call: Electoral Competition and Politician Behavior in India
Mahvish Shaukat
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